Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of In Re: Unchecked cattle sheds on the opposite side of police outpost in Bidhannagar, dispute regarding its demolition Vs Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Environment, Government of West Bengal & Others dated 19/03/2024. Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has launched an initiative to document various cattle breeds native to Tamil Nadu and undertake conservation measures. An amount of Rs. 4.16 lakh has been sanctioned under the Farmers Technology Transfer Fund of NABARD to an institution specialising in native cattle breeds …
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday asked the district collectors to ensure utmost transparency in the assessment of the damage of properties by the recent floods. The chief minister asked them to complete the assessment report by September 25. Meanwhile, in response to the request by the Odisha government, …
Wildfires are raging across central Texas, compounding drought that has caused $5.2bn in agricultural losses and led ranchers in the largest cattle-producing US state to rush to slaughter. At the weekend, the Texas Forest Service responded to 63 new fires, many fanned by winds from tropical storm Lee. Texas has …
Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept through an entire village in the Kandia valley of the Kohistan district on Thursday morning. According to local police officials and villagers, at least 63 people, 28 children, 17 women and 18 men, were killed. Some TV channel reported up to 80 …
Guwahati, Aug. 7: The leather industry and beef processing units in neighbouring Bangladesh are encouraging smuggling of Indian cattle through the porous Indo-Bangladesh borders, including the stretch of international border in Dhubri district. The Union home ministry has said the leather and tannery industries and processed beef units in Bangladesh …
Within days of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japanese food inspectors were spot-checking meat from the region's slaughtered cattle for radioactive contamination. Officials later fanned out to farms near the crippled plant to pass Geiger counters over the animals to determine whether they were safe to sell. …
Even as Panchkula residents grapple with the cattle menace, the Municipal Council’s (MC) plan for establishing a cowshed hangs in the air. This cowshed was to come in Pinjore on a 12-acre land. Ravinder Rawal, President, Municipal Council, said, “Haryana government sanctioned the land for a cattle shed so that …
Upset with milk prices continuing to spiral high, the government has finalised an ambitious Rs 8,000-crore national dairy plan to increase per cow milk production through artificial insemination. The plan to be implemented from the next financial year with the help of the World Bank, aims at providing financial incentives …
IN 1860, Charles Darwin encouraged cattle owners to maintain data on a special breed of cows living in Northumberland county, northern England. Little did he know that 151 years later these records, which included births and deaths, would provide evidence of how climate change is affecting breeding patterns in Chillingham …
Rudraprayag: Despite of shortage of basic facilities, the Animal Husbandry department has undertaken some notable measures for improvement of bovine breeds and experiments in artificial insemination for improved breeds. Cross breeding with foreign breeds for improving the breed for specific purposes has achieved an increase in milk production which has …
New Delhi: Animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has come in the way of our soldiers getting trendy and comfortable leather sports shoes. She says thousands of cows will have to be slaughtered to make sneakers for 1.1 million jawans. But the Army believes that Maneka’s objection is a ploy to …
A historic drought in the southern Plains intensified in the last week and contributed to dry conditions emerging in the heart of the Midwest crop belt, a weekly climatologists' report said Thursday. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor, produced by a consortium of national climate experts, showed abnormally dry conditions affecting …
Japan's government ordered the suspension of all shipments of beef cattle from Fukushima prefecture on Tuesday after discovering that cattle fed rice straw contaminated with high levels of radioactive cesium had been shipped nationwide. The discovery has added to consumer worries over food safety following contamination incidents for vegetables, tea, …
Even after explosions rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Kuniaki Sato, who raises cattle here about 20 miles from the crippled complex, said he had received no clear warning from the government about the possible dangers of radiation to his herd. So six weeks after the accident, on April …
More than 500 beef cattle that ate feed contaminated by radioactive material from Fukushima have already shipped to other parts of Japan, an initial result of inspections on the area's farms showed Monday. Separately, Yomiuri newspaper said Japan's central government is expected to announce restrictions on shipments of beef cattle …
Punjab is heralding a second white revolution in the country. Commercial dairy farming being the new wave in the state, with about 5,500 commercial dairy farms, Punjab is fast emerging as a model for other states. Young farmers with an entrepreneurial streak are leaving behind the travails of diminished returns …
Livelihood pattern of the people of an area is directly influenced by the local biodiversity. Biodiversity is essential for human survival and economic well-being, and for the ecosystem function and stability. Over exploitation and biodiversity loss affects livelihood and food security of the local. People change their livelihood strategies as …
On Tuesday in a ceremony in Rome, the United Nations is officially declaring that for only the second time in history, a disease has been wiped off the face of the earth. Everyone has heard of smallpox. Very few have heard of the runner-up. That
GURGAON: The per capita availability of milk in Haryana has increased to 680 grams per day as compared to the national average of 258 grams. A spokesman of the Haryana animal husbandry and dairy department said that the milk production in the state has increased to 62.67 lakh tonnes. The …
